Grete Keilson attended Volksschule and Handelsschule there.
11 Facts About Grete Keilson
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Grete Keilson joined the Young Communist League of Germany in 1922, and the Communist Party of Germany in 1925.
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Grete Keilson went to work as an assistant to Ernst Thalmann, the General Secretary of the KPD.
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Grete Keilson then relocated to Paris, where she worked for the Congress against Fascism and War under the codename Agnes.
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Grete Keilson then worked for the Central Committee of the KPD, coordinating KPD cells operating outside Germany under the code names Agnes, first in Prague in 1935 and 1936, and then back in Paris.
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Grete Keilson travelled to the Soviet Union under the name of Anni Grob, her Russian visa endorsed by Wilhelm Pieck and Walter Ulbricht.
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Grete Keilson worked at the Comintern office in Moscow as an assistant to Pieck.
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Grete Keilson returned to Germany in June 1945, where she was Head of the Personnel Policy Department of the Central Committee of the KPD, and then, after the 1946 merger of the Social Democratic Party of Germany with the KPD, of the new Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
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Grete Keilson was superseded by Peter Florin, and became one of his deputies.
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Grete Keilson died in Dresden in unified Federal Germany on the 4th of January 1999.
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Grete Keilson was cremated and her ashes interred with those of Klaus Fuchs in the "Pergolenweg", the memorial to the socialists in the Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde in Berlin.